wow---my husband actually prefers pie to cake, so I stick a candle in his Birthday apple pie. But, let us consider the logic of eating the fruit from living trees---wouldn't that be like eating their children? I know, no worse than eating eggs from chickens...

and then there are the cakes that call themselves pies, like Boston Cream pie...looks like a cake, in my opinion. Hope I have not opened a can of worms...

I'm so excited for pie. I keep forgetting you are taking Saturdays off and so I visit anyway. So far I have not been disappointed. Last week I just reread the Friday post (one of the best ever)and now this week you're giving us pie. You're great even on your days off.

Thanks for the saturday goodie! It was a nice treat...let's just say, good timing. Even if it's not a cake and I have no clue what the pun is all about, it's just SO ENCOURAGING that you posted on a satruday, kind of like the little toy in the cereal box. Weird, or what? :) Thanks!

When I saw the pie, I thought, "That must be Perkins!" They have an "Orchard" pie (and yes, I read it as "orchard" and was confused by the LOTR comments for a moment) which is apple and peach and some other orchard fruits all baked together into pie goodness.

Hey Jen & psychoduck (LOVE the name btw:) I'd be up for seeing a pie wreck blog or even some pie wrecks featured from time to time. IMHO pies are SO much harder to make and easier to screw up and there are definitely some decorating no nos when it comes to pie, decorative crusts, horrible attempts at the whoopie pie, pies with funky flavors, pies you can't unsee, pies masquerading as cakes (like the elusive boston cream some else mentioned) the colossal mispelling of rhubarb, Thanksgiving alone could provide a smorgasbord of craptastic looking pies with "artistic" flair! Think of the possibilities:-D

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I actually royally messed up a pie some time ago. I was making a lattice-top cherry pie using frozen cherries and I didn't let them thaw enough. I was trying to get them to thicken, losing patience, and went, "Grrr!" and shook a bunch of my tapioca thickener in. It started setting up, I topped it with a lattice, and threw it in the oven.

It was the most gorgeous pie you have ever seen. Perfectly golden brown all over and it didn't bubble up at all (first clue). However, when I cut into it the slices came out like a pumpkin pie: perfectly straight up and down. No gooey cherries here! It tasted fine, but was like chewing old Knox gelatin. We still laugh about that pie...

Hey, most of us do get that feed you're looking at, so you can just relax completely on Saturdays, all right? Today, at the Prancing Skiltaire party house, after seeing the Super Mario Brothers wedding cakes, one guy showed this amazing custom level in Super Mario World, called Perpetual Mario:

Jen and I were just having breakfast at Perkins one morning and noticed this kinda funny sign that looks like it says orcward. So I took a picture. Then Jen was like, "I'll put it up on Saturday just 'cause I think it's kind of funny."

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